The smallish company I joined back in 2009 has turned into a pretty big one, with offices on three continents. It was always our goal to be a big, successful public company. And I’m proud of the work I did that helped reach that goal.

Having said that, the time comes to move onto something new. To follow my true passion… male modeling. Just kidding (or am I?). But as I work on my Blue Steel, I’m also looking around for a new opportunities to continue my data-backed inbound marketing work, or to bring the HubSpot-style growth hacking playbook to another startup. Email me if you’d like to discuss.

But really, the male modeling thing. I am really really ridiculously good looking.

Dan Zarrella

Dan Zarrella is the award-winning social media scientist and author of four books: “The Science of Marketing,” “Zarrella’s Hierarchy of Contagiousness,” “The Social Media Marketing Book” and The Facebook Marketing Book.